Nassau County Fire Fighters Burn Center Foundation

Nassau County, Long Island, New York

The
Nassau County Fire Fighters Burn Center Foundation is a non-profit
organization of firefighters founded in 1991, dedicated to the
advancement of burn care, research, prevention, education and the proper
treatment of burns.

Our
goal is to make quality burn care available to all who are seriously
burned, regardless of age, race, creed or economic status. This site is
designed to inform you of what we do including: upcoming events,
fund-raisers, and burn care assistance.

"The
county does a good job of supporting it, but they do not have the funds
to send the doctors and nurses to different school and seminars, and
there is certain equipment that is not state-of-the-art," said Paul
Napoli, co-chairman, Nassau County Firefighters Burn Center Foundation.
"We are trying to make a good burn center a great burn center, in terms
of the care and treatment it offers."

Firefighters and members
of the Burn Unit Teams have a special empathy for burn victims. No
other group witnesses more of the devastation that fire wreaks on the
human body.

Did you know that
over 2 Million
burns occur in the United State and Canada annually?

Burns are the
second leading cause of
accidental death to children under age five. Nearly 24,000 children
are treated in the hospital emergency departments every year for scald
injuries alone. *

*National Safe Kids Campaign

According to the
Burn Prevention Foundation, scalds are the number one cause of burn
injury to children under age 4. Many scalding injuries could be prevented with a little foresight.
Take these precautions to make your home safer
click here.

In the U.S., about 2
million people suffer burns each year. Of these, 300,000 are burned
seriously and over 6,000 are fatalities, making burns this nation's
third largest cause of accidental death. For degrees of burn
information and how to deal with burns click here.